Beppu, a city on the island of Kyushu, is one place in Japan where you can say you have been to hell and back! Home to the second largest volume of hot water in the world after Yellowstone Park (USA), Beppu has nine major geothermal hot spots, locally called the ‘Nine Hells of Beppu’. It is a popular tourist spot.
With temperatures ranging from 50 to 90 , these nine springs are too hot to bathe in, but they present spectacular multicolored vistas. Of them, the Oniishibozu Jigoku is a hot pit of mud bubbles that resembles the shaven head of a monk. The picturesque turquoise blue waters of Umi Jigoku rise up in puffs of billowing steam. Chinoike Jigoku or ‘Blood Pond Hell’ is so named due to its photogenic pool of red water. The milky white water of Shiraike Jigoku explains its name – ‘white Pond Hell’. In the vicinity is also a geyser that spouts every half-hour for about five minutes.
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